Strike Follow

The general strike in Greece on Thursday of last week was even more powerful than the one on 24 February.

The first strike in the Church of England’s history took place on Friday of last week.

Workers at the Notting Hill Housing Group in London struck on Monday for the first time in over 15 years.

Around 200,000 civil service workers will strike on the same day that chancellor Alistair Darling presents his budget to parliament.

Union leaders hailed today’s general strike as a complete success. Public services ground to a halt in all major cities from Alexandroupoli in the north to Sitia in the south. Public and private sector workers both joined the action.

The PCS civil service workers’ union has set a further strike day on Wednesday 24 March, budget day. This follows a successful two-day strike on Monday and Tuesday of this week, when over 200,000 workers walked out, severely hitting government services.

Network Rail maintenance workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking against bosses’ plans to cut 1,500 safety-critical jobs. The RMT union members voted by 77 percent to strike over the cuts and by 89 percent for action short of a strike in a 65 percent turn-out. The TSSA union is also balloting its members for action at the company.

Lecturers at Leeds University are set to strike on Thursday 18 March. They will be striking on the same day as lecturers at Sussex University.

Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese workers took part in a general strike on Thursday of last week.

A dockers’ strike has paralysed large parts of Finnish industry.

Lecturers at the University of Sussex are set to strike on Thursday 18 March.

Crucial talks between British Airways (BA) bosses and the Unite union were due to end as Socialist Worker went to press.